On the (Tibetan) language.

After my one (Nepalese-born) (Tibetan) coworker gave me that homemade chicken soup of hers, I said "thank you" in (Tibetan) since that's one of my memorized phrases, and then I asked her if it was possible in (Tibetan) to say "thank you" for something, like "Thank you for the soup."

And, she said some larger phrase that ended in the "thank you" phrase that I knew, and I repeated it and asked her if that meant "Thank you for the soup," and she said it was like "Thank you for giving noodles," and I found it interesting that what I had perceived as soup, she perceived as noodles.

She categorized the food differently.